{"id":2304,"date":"2026-08-26T17:26:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=2304"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:26:25","slug":"julian-alvarez-atletico-madrid-say-theres-zero-per-cent-chance-of-him-joining-barcelona-despite-clubs-plea-as-arsenal-wait-in-wings-football-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=2304","title":{"rendered":"Julian Alvarez: Atletico Madrid say there&#8217;s &#8216;zero per cent chance&#8217; of him joining Barcelona despite club&#8217;s plea as Arsenal wait in wings | Football News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-testid=\"article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>The noise around Atletico Madrid forward Julian Alvarez refuses to go away &#8211; so where are things after a chaotic few days surrounding the in-demand Argentine?<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez did not train with his Atletico team-mates on Wednesday, though this was officially put down to a stomach bug and a poor night&#8217;s sleep rather than anything to do with his future.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old wants to join <strong>Barcelona<\/strong>, who again went public with their desire to sign him on Wednesday in a video interview with president Joan Laporta.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that we&#8217;re very interested in the player,&#8221; he told their club channels. &#8220;We&#8217;d like our offer to be accepted, and we say this with all due respect for Atletico Madrid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, Atletico&#8217;s stance remains that they categorically do not want to sell him &#8211; and even more emphatically that he will not be sold to Barcelona in particular. Not only because the two are rivals, but also due to bad blood between the clubs over previous transfers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-site-video sdc-article-widget callfn\" data-account-id=\"6057984924001\" data-amp-iframe-embed=\"\" data-asset-id=\"1774bb9a-5250-4e05-9d21-5c8c7e91dee9\" data-asset-path=\"\" data-asset-version=\"\" data-autoplay=\"false\" data-auth-config=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/api.condatis.sky\\\/auth\\\/video\\\/token&quot;,&quot;tokenRequired&quot;:true,&quot;fetchMethod&quot;:&quot;url&quot;,&quot;fetchOptions&quot;:{&quot;encoded&quot;:true},&quot;headers&quot;:{&quot;X-SkyGDP-Proposition&quot;:&quot;sportweb&quot;,&quot;X-SkyGDP-Territory&quot;:&quot;GB&quot;,&quot;Authorization&quot;:&quot;OGY5ZDgxZjRhNzYwNGQ3MTljMjFhMDJlOGVmODRhYzA=&quot;}}\" data-caption=\"The Friday Night Football panel discuss whether Arsenal are still shy of a world-class attacker that would see them get over the line to win their first UEFA Champions League title.\" data-clip-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-video\" data-component-name-alias=\"ui-sitewide-video\" data-competition=\"\" data-copy-url-text=\"URL copied to clipboard\" data-fn=\"sdc-site-video\" data-id=\"id_1774bb9a-5250-4e05-9d21-5c8c7e91dee9\" data-is-live-stream=\"false\" data-lite=\"true\" data-options=\"\" data-originator-id=\"-1\" data-originator-handle=\"brightcove-sport-gb\" data-package-name=\"\" data-provider=\"brightcove\" data-player-id=\"DESF5xFjJ\" data-playsinline=\"\" data-sensitive=\"\" data-sdc-id=\"7327772\" data-sdc-video-id=\"1774bb9a-5250-4e05-9d21-5c8c7e91dee9\" data-sport-category=\"\" data-state=\"loading\" data-token-state=\"none\" data-video-ad-unit=\"videoplayer\" data-video-blacklisted-originator-ids=\"\" data-video-id=\"ref:1774bb9a-5250-4e05-9d21-5c8c7e91dee9\" data-video-type=\"\" data-auto-pause-on-not-visible=\"\" data-defer-source=\"\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-closed-captions-position=\"\" data-show-closed-captions=\"true\" data-show-pip=\"\" data-show-live-stream-scrubber=\"\" data-autoload=\"\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-video__inner\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-video__content\" data-role=\"bridge-controller\" style=\"padding-bottom: calc(100% \/ ());\">\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>          <span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-role=\"poster\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster\"><br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/08\/768x432\/skysports-fnf-alvarez_7327779.jpg?20260821224857\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/08\/768x432\/skysports-fnf-alvarez_7327779.jpg?20260821224857 600w,https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/08\/1600x900\/skysports-fnf-alvarez_7327779.jpg?20260821224857\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-poster\"\/><br \/>\n          <span class=\"sdc-site-video__loader\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-loader\"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <video id=\"id_1774bb9a-5250-4e05-9d21-5c8c7e91dee9\" data-embed=\"default\" data-application-id=\"\" class=\"video-js sdc-site-video__tag\" controls=\"\" playsinline=\"\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-video\"\/>\n        <\/div><figcaption class=\"sdc-site-video__caption ui-media-caption\">\n<p>          <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-role=\"caption-text\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-caption\">The Friday Night Football panel discuss whether Arsenal are still shy of a world-class attacker that would see them get over the line to win their first UEFA Champions League title.<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Atletico have not commented directly but <em>Marca<\/em>, Spain&#8217;s biggest sports newspaper, have received on-the-record quotes from the club saying: &#8220;The player is being portrayed as the victim, but we are the only victims in this case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Barcelona] have harmed us both financially and socially. There is a zero-per-cent chance of selling him to Barcelona &#8211; it&#8217;s not about money, it&#8217;s about dignity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The situation around Alvarez&#8217;s future has become &#8220;extremely tense&#8221;, according to Atletico expert and journalist Ruben Ur\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>His public desire to leave has made him so unpopular with the club&#8217;s supporters that he was booed off after their 2-2 draw with Villarreal on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Neither Miguel Gil Mar\u00edn (CEO of Atl\u00e9tico Madrid) nor the Apollo board want to sell the player to Barcelona,&#8221; Ur\u00eda told <em>Sky Sports News<\/em>. &#8220;The entire Apollo board supports Gil Mar\u00edn&#8217;s decision. Alvarez has been told.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Ur\u00eda, <strong>Arsenal<\/strong> sporting director Andrea Berta has remained in contact with his former Atletico employers in recent days after Alvarez was booed off by supporters in the opening LaLiga game against Villarreal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-site-video sdc-article-widget callfn\" data-account-id=\"6057984924001\" data-amp-iframe-embed=\"\" data-asset-id=\"df1e40eb-5b3b-4bb1-b82b-1ad045da2fe5\" data-asset-path=\"\" data-asset-version=\"\" data-autoplay=\"false\" data-auth-config=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/api.condatis.sky\\\/auth\\\/video\\\/token&quot;,&quot;tokenRequired&quot;:true,&quot;fetchMethod&quot;:&quot;url&quot;,&quot;fetchOptions&quot;:{&quot;encoded&quot;:true},&quot;headers&quot;:{&quot;X-SkyGDP-Proposition&quot;:&quot;sportweb&quot;,&quot;X-SkyGDP-Territory&quot;:&quot;GB&quot;,&quot;Authorization&quot;:&quot;OGY5ZDgxZjRhNzYwNGQ3MTljMjFhMDJlOGVmODRhYzA=&quot;}}\" data-caption=\"On the Transfer Talk podcast, Sam Tighe and Daniel Storey debate whether Arsenal should gamble on signing Julian Alvarez despite the striker clearly wanting to sign for Barcelona.\" data-clip-type=\"\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-video\" data-component-name-alias=\"ui-sitewide-video\" data-competition=\"\" data-copy-url-text=\"URL copied to clipboard\" data-fn=\"sdc-site-video\" data-id=\"id_df1e40eb-5b3b-4bb1-b82b-1ad045da2fe5\" data-is-live-stream=\"false\" data-lite=\"true\" data-options=\"\" data-originator-id=\"-1\" data-originator-handle=\"brightcove-sport-gb\" data-package-name=\"\" data-provider=\"brightcove\" data-player-id=\"DESF5xFjJ\" data-playsinline=\"\" data-sensitive=\"\" data-sdc-id=\"7330986\" data-sdc-video-id=\"df1e40eb-5b3b-4bb1-b82b-1ad045da2fe5\" data-sport-category=\"\" data-state=\"loading\" data-token-state=\"none\" data-video-ad-unit=\"videoplayer\" data-video-blacklisted-originator-ids=\"\" data-video-id=\"ref:df1e40eb-5b3b-4bb1-b82b-1ad045da2fe5\" data-video-type=\"\" data-auto-pause-on-not-visible=\"\" data-defer-source=\"\" tabindex=\"-1\" data-closed-captions-position=\"\" data-show-closed-captions=\"true\" data-show-pip=\"\" data-show-live-stream-scrubber=\"\" data-autoload=\"\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-video__inner\">\n<div class=\"sdc-site-video__content\" data-role=\"bridge-controller\" style=\"padding-bottom: calc(100% \/ ());\">\n<p class=\"sdc-site-video__accessibility-message\" data-role=\"accessibility-message\">Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player<\/p>\n<p>          <span aria-hidden=\"true\" data-role=\"poster\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster\"><br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/08\/768x432\/transfer-talk-arsenal-alvarez_7331002.jpg?20260825170742\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/08\/768x432\/transfer-talk-arsenal-alvarez_7331002.jpg?20260825170742 600w,https:\/\/e0.365dm.com\/26\/08\/1600x900\/transfer-talk-arsenal-alvarez_7331002.jpg?20260825170742\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"sdc-site-video__poster-img excluded-image\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-poster\"\/><br \/>\n          <span class=\"sdc-site-video__loader\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-loader\"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <\/span><\/p>\n<p>          <video id=\"id_df1e40eb-5b3b-4bb1-b82b-1ad045da2fe5\" data-embed=\"default\" data-application-id=\"\" class=\"video-js sdc-site-video__tag\" controls=\"\" playsinline=\"\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-video\"\/>\n        <\/div><figcaption class=\"sdc-site-video__caption ui-media-caption\">\n<p>          <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\" data-role=\"caption-text\" data-testid=\"sitewide-video-caption\">On the Transfer Talk podcast, Sam Tighe and Daniel Storey debate whether Arsenal should gamble on signing Julian Alvarez despite the striker clearly wanting to sign for Barcelona.<\/span><br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Gunners<strong> <\/strong>remain interested in Alvarez and would be prepared to break their transfer record, the \u00a3105m paid out for Declan Rice three summers ago, to bring him to the Emirates Stadium &#8211; but the player himself does not want to move to London.<\/p>\n<h3>Could Arsenal still end up signing Alvarez?<\/h3>\n<p><em>Sky Sports News senior reporter <strong>Rob Dorsett<\/strong>:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think even if Arsenal are outsiders at the moment, and the official word is that Arsenal aren&#8217;t holding out great hopes of making this deal happen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But if Alvarez thinks his future needs to be away from Atletico Madrid after upsetting his supporters and they won&#8217;t sell him to Barcelona, his only option is to join Arsenal, the Premier League champions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the moment, he says he doesn&#8217;t want to do that. But there are still six days of the window left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11095\/13577412\/julian-alvarez-atletico-madrid-say-theres-zero-per-cent-chance-of-him-joining-barcelona-despite-clubs-plea-as-arsenal-wait-in-wings\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The noise around Atletico Madrid forward Julian Alvarez refuses to go away &#8211; so where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}